<![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 14 May 2008 17:25:56 EDT Wed, 14 May 2008 17:25:56 EDT http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts]]> http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts#c5699974 Home is somehow the first No. 1 album of Diamond's career, which is probably more a testament to the wacky way the album charts were calibrated back in the day than it is to the fact that he's been reaching out to the MySpace generation.

Word. Pre-SoundScan, you were relying on retailers' perception of what their big-sellers were - and how much in "incentives" they'd taken from their label rep, and how much blow they'd done that day. I mean, Neil's just always been there, rarely "hot" per se, and so I can see how the guy never topped the chart. The one moment he was kinda-hot, The Jazz Singer, he had the misfortune to be competing on the album charts of 1980-81 with stuff like John Lennon's Double Fantasy.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:390427:c5699974 Wed, 14 May 2008 17:25:56 EDT <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts]]> http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts#c5695854 @EddieRebel: a mirror.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:390427:c5695854 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:05 EDT <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts]]> http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts#c5695726 What kind of album do they award him if it sells 10 million copies?

Artie Fufkin

]]> 33:390427:c5695726 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:07:41 EDT <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts]]> http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts#c5694002 Seeing Neil Diamond's name alongside the likes of Clay Aiken, Gavin DeGraw and Josh Groban is a cruel reminder that past generations had such better MOR troubadours than ours does.

Al Shipley

]]> 33:390427:c5694002 Wed, 14 May 2008 14:12:54 EDT <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts]]> http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts#c5693679 @Rob Murphy: No. 26, 21,000 sold, down only 8%.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:390427:c5693679 Wed, 14 May 2008 14:02:12 EDT <![CDATA[Neil Diamond Finds Temporary Shelter Atop The Album Charts]]> http://idolator.com/390427/neil-diamond-finds-temporary-shelter-atop-the-album-charts#c5693510 ZOMG! What happened to the Chipmunks???

Rob Murphy

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